5/23/2007

The Briefcase

In 2005 in art school, I did a project on Prince Bernhardt. Back then he had just died. Our prince was a real personality. He showed this his whole live, for instance through his flirts with Evita Peron, The Lockheed Scandaland his two secret bastard daughters.
After his death Dutch television released 9 interviews and because of those I got very into the life-stories of the dead prince. This is when I decided to do my art school project on him. Basically I took my favorite briefcase as a Mcguffin for all the princes' secrets and photographed it in mysterious places. Art school wasn't for me and a week after finishing this project I quit. I never got to collect my briefcase that was on display. To me the briefcase was lost...
But last week I found the briefcase in a fleemarket in Gothenburg! I bought it back for 1 euro, the boy had no idea what he sold me. He could have asked me for 10 and I would have paid it. The photos that where in it are gone now, but I still have them digitally.